“Cartoon” can mean a lot of things. As a drawing style, those things usually include simplification. A cartoonist takes a massively detailed real-world subject and Continue Reading

A man drives through the sandy Iranian landscape surrounding Tehran. He drives past day workers seeking employment but waves them off. He moves out of Continue Reading

Palestinian/Jordanian electronic ensemble 47SOUL have just released a timely and important song in “Border Ctrl.” that compares the Israeli and US border walls that cruelly Continue Reading

New Jersey’s Creeptones play the type of catchy pop-rock that tore up the charts in the 1960s and headlined on college rock radio in the Continue Reading

Switzerland’s Ay Wing makes her warm neo-soul music in the creative environment of Berlin. She teams with Germany’s Shuko to create the lustrous, dreamy confection Continue Reading

Molly Tuttle was only two years old when Jerry Garcia died in 1995. Though the little girl who grew up in the Bay Area found Continue Reading

Capable of finger-picking intensive melodies and percussive rhythms, Jake Allen is perhaps most known for his technical guitar prowess. As he’s tread the lines between Continue Reading

Pleasure Line, Video Age’s third album, is a pastiche of 1980s synthpop. This is interesting, because the band didn’t start out that way. Listening back Continue Reading

There’s something comforting about the sound of familiar music. No matter how dark the outside world may seem, we can huddle in our rooms by Continue Reading

Whenever I hear the song “Stay Beautiful” off Taylor Swift’s 2006 self-titled debut, I’m transported back to when my mom and I would drive to Continue Reading

The cover of Freeze, Melt, the latest album from Australian electropop group Cut Copy, depicts a glimmering ocean wave rolling towards the camera and a Continue Reading

Richard Dawson has a bit at his shows where he stomps his feet onstage and bellows into the mic at frighteningly close proximity to his Continue Reading

“Bionda”, the new single by Lita, an Italian singer relocated to Los Angeles, sounds totally contemporary in its arrangement and production. The song’s roots, however, Continue Reading